ABSTRACT

First published in 1993. This is Volume 13, No 4 of the Psychoanalytic Inquiry which focuses on locating transference: actuality and illusion in the psychoanalytic encounter. The interrelation between actuality and illusion within the clincal encounter is a subject that has influenced the tehory and pratcice of psychoanalysis since its beginnings, particulary with regard to how clinicians identify and construe the transference.

chapter |5 pages

Prologue

Actuality and Illusion in the Psychoanalytic Encounter

chapter |14 pages

The Analyst's Experience in the Psychoanalytic Situation

A Continuum between Objective and Subjective Reality

chapter |15 pages

Slaying the Dragons of the Past or Cooking the Hare in the Present

A Historical View on Affects in the Psychoanalytic Encounter

chapter |12 pages

Reality and Psychic Reality in Ernst Kris's Last Papers

An Attempt to Update His Findings

chapter |8 pages

Epilogue

Actuality, Illusion, and Clinical Authority